Acute loss of the small bowel in a school-age boy. Difficult choices: To sustain life or to stop treatment?

European Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 162, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 794-798

  Severijnen, René ^a   Hulstijn Dirkmaat, Ineke ^a   Gordijn, Bert ^a   Bakker, Leo ^a   Bongaerts, Ger ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Child; Ethics; Parenteral nutrition; Short bowel

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONSULTATION; ETHICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTESTINE GRAFT; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; INTESTINE VOLVULUS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MALROTATION SYNDROME; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; SMALL INTESTINE; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; VOLVULUS;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL VOLVULUS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0242487684     PISSN: 03406199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-003-1294-8     Document Type: Article

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